Technology

This page is for technology. If you have any ideas or lessons that incorporate technology please put them down. If you have any cool sites that would be useful for the classroom.


 * Build your wild self** - this lesson can be used at any level.

Objectives: - Students will be able to explore a new website. - Students will learn what each body part is used for in their wild self.

Materials: - Computers - www.buildyourself.com -www.funbrain.com

Set: - Get students to go to the website [|www.buildyourself.com] - Explain the site to the students. - This site allows students to create themselves as something that is wild. They work through the different parts of the body to create a unique creature. - When students finish it tells you the name of your wild self and describes your appearance.

Development: - Give students time to work through images of the body options to create their wild self. - Make sure to tell students to take their time and look through all of the options and make sure there are happy with what their appearance is.

Closure: - Get students to finish up their bodies and read about themselves. - Get each student to print off their wild self and hand them in.

Extension: - Get students to write a story about their wild self that they created. (Also see grade 4 Language Arts section for the lesson. I put the language arts lesson I used for this there).

[|Flickr] [|Class Tools] [|You Tube] [|Blabberize] [|Twitter] [|Delicious] [|Wikispaces] [|Animoto] [|Xtranormal] [|Prezi] [|Teacher Tube] [|Fotobabble]- this is a great tool that allows you to unload a picture and then talk about it. I think that this would work well if students created an a piece of art and then put it on here and talked about it. They could easily put it on their blog when done. [|Story Jumper]- website where you can create student's stories.
 * Here are some places that you can use to help you with teaching technology.**